Sixth Grade Plans for CC (2012-13)

Chalkdust PreAlgebra
Sonlight Level 6 Readers
Wheelock's Latin

Classical Writing Homer B
IEW History Based Writing Lessons
French
Elementary Greek
Learn some Greek maxims -

TOG Year 1 Ancient History
The Elements Chemistry
Artistic Pursuits

Preschool for LB (2008-2010)

I have decided to call it Not-K this year
Revised Dec 12, 2009


everything but math
We are doing Sonlight LA K without the readers since we have plenty of those little things.

Newly 5, LB sits with us to do copywork, practice the word cards from the SL K book, and then I do an activity with her and read her a story which she draws a picture of. It is simple and easy so far.

I'm still not trying teach her to read - which she is doing anyway. I just want her to participate with us for a few minutes each day. She's been proudly putting her work on the fridge before she runs off to play.

Math -
RS A - its been sitting around for years. I'm going to open it up and use it.


Revised Aug 9,2009
I guess this year it is K4 or is that still PreK


Explode the Code workbooks
Starfall.com for additional word play and their books are great readers
MEP 1 math
Rays New Primary Math done orally
Singapore CWP 1 done slowly and orally. I love word problems.


Lots of reading, playing and exploring. I'm keeping school to just one page a day three days a week of work. My primary goal is to get her reading fluently and ready for easy chapters by this time next year. She has started reading CVC and CCVC words already. She'll join us for our geology hikes and history lessons. She's also old enough to take art classes this year and wants ballet.


Older versions of this to see how my planning has evolved.

Revised Feb 7,2009
Singapore Early Bird Math
BJU K5 Math
Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K
Stories
Celebrating Art

I realized that RS A just wasn't getting done so we started BJU K5 math. It is a simple workbook but does a great job so far of introducing math. She loves doing her math and gets lots of praise for joining us at the school table and doing her work. She also gets lots of prasie for being smart at math. So far we are just introducing numbers and doing pattern recognition which is plenty for her age. I love Celebrating Art. It helps me to remember to do art at the little-one level at least once a week. It even incorporates a story every few lessons. And speaking of stories - DOH. I had been forgetting to read things like Goldilocks and other classic stories to the little one. I am purposely doing those weekly now. Doing work at the table is voluntary still, but the stories and art are now a part of our routine which is really good.




Original
Singapore Early Bird Math
Right Start Level A
Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K
Earlybird Start-Up Science

Lots of Play, Stories, and Cuddles

In case you noticed it missing, I don't teach my kids to read. The oldest two learned to read despite my best efforts to teach them. I refuse to try to teach this one. She will have to learn it like the others did.

Right now she is 4 and her participation is voluntary. She gets "lessons" on the days that she wants them which is about once a week right now. She gets daily stories of her choice and lots of free play. She has chores and helps out around the house. She loves to play with the dog, hamster, and chickens. She loves to go to the zoo and on nature walks. She is looking forward to starting ballet when she is older. Play is the best teacher for the young.

Second Grade for CC (2008-2009)

Revised 17 January
ART
Artistic Pursuits 4-6 book 1
Math
Math Mammoth Add and Subtract 2B and 3 (completed)
Singapore math 3 A&B
Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems 2, 3
Miquon Green almost done
Mquon Yellow Next
Miquon Purple Later - maybe summer


English

IEW Fables Myths and Fairy Tales

The ABC's and All Their Tricks (for me)
Copywork daily from a poem of the student's choice

History
Story of the World 2

Science
Completed
Earth Science unit
Darwin and the Galapagos

• Galapagos Means Tortoises by Ruth Heller
• Galapagos dvd by BBC
• The Voyage of the Beetle by Anne Weaver

Current
ummmmm - Nature Studies and free choice science books whenever she feels like it. We are currently unstructured for science until probably next year.

Future

• Real Science 4 Kids Physics
• Lego Motorized Engineering II

The Literature - August - May
Celtic myths - complete
Norse myths - Future - starting next week
1001 Arabian Tales - Complete - as a read aloud, now she is reading it herself
Indian tales - Future
Shakespeare Stories - Complete

Older version - Revised 15 Dec 2008
Core
Singapore math 3 A&B
Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems 2, 3

Writing with Ease (without the workbook)

We dropped the workbook so that I could pick our own models. This is when I started looking at changing writing programs.

Growing with Grammar

More
Story of the World 2
Second Grade Middle Ages History List

The Yummy Literature - August - May
Celtic myths - almost complete
Norse myths -
Indian tales -
Shakespeare Stories - Complete

Other
Lively Latin I have this already, but it never seems like a good time to start.

Or maybe Song School Latin - CC is enjoying the singing in Spanish class. This might be a very good approach. Then we would move into Latin for Children next year which is very strong in grammar, and they have history readers in Latin. Nice.

Artistic Pursuits K-3 Book 2 starts with art history in about the year 1200. Once we get to that time period, we will add in Artistic Pursuits.

Earth Science (complete)

For the Teacher -CW Aesop Core Book. I want to do CW later and would like to read the core book before I begin.

Older Revision 09 August 2008

Core
Math Mammoth Add and Substract 2B and 3
Singapore math 3 A&B
Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems 2, 3

Writing with Ease
Just Write 2
Can Do Print


More
Story of the World 2
Second Grade Middle Ages History List



The Yummy Literature - August - May
Celtic myths - 1 month
Jakata Tales - 1 month
Norse myths - 3 months
Indian tales - 3 months
Shakespeare Stories - 2 months

Later This Year
Lively Latin
Artistic Pursuits K-3 Book 2 starts with art history in about the year 1200. Once we get to that time period, we will add in Artistic Pursuits.

I will teach this at co-op since science is more fun with our friends
K'Nex Simple Machines - Maybe
Earth Science


For the Teacher - IEW Teaching Writing Seminar

Fifth Grade Plans for CC (2011-2012)

Chalkdust Basic Math
Sonlight Level 5 Readers
Galore Park Latin Prep
Galore Park French 2

Classical Writing Homer A
IEW History Based Writing Lessons
Figuratively Speaking   Literary Analysis

TOG Year 4 covers the 1900's
Sonlight Level 5 Science Human Anatomy
Artistic Pursuits

Fourth Grade Plans for CC (2010-2011)

Singapore Math 5
Sonlight Level 4 Readers
Galore Park Latin Prep

Galore Park French 1
IEW History Based Writing Lessons

TOG Year 3 covers the 1800's
Sonlight Level 4 Science DVDs and kit
Artistic Pursuits

Third Grade Plans for CC (2009-2010)

What we are currently using as of December 12, 2009

Math
Saxon 5/4 with Life of Fred Fractions once a week

English
Sonlight 3+4 LA
in this we are doing the copywork, writing, reading and vocabulary

Reading
I don't assign reading - CC reads about an hour a day in addition to her SL reading.

Languages
Lively Latin isn't working well for us, I'm just not in the swing with it.
Rosetta Stone French is a new arrival thanks to the school disctric. We'll see how that goes.

Science
Is mainly done at the enrichment school. They do a unit study with those big, expensive science kits and field trips. She reads lots of non-fiction science books and enjoys watching shows like Mythbusters, Popular Mechanics for Kids, and Discovery's Ultimate Guide to the Awesome. We also take frequent trips to the zoo, the natural history museum and the aquarium and lots of nature walks.

History
CC lives and breathes Roman history so I don't schedule that. She does it after school for fun. I have a big shelf of American history books that we are working through in roughly chronological order. She is also reading Take Me Back on her own, for fun.

Memory
We do work on memorizing poetry and lots of it.

That's all of school at this point. She does science, world cultures, art, music, p.e. and chess at her enrichment school once a week and plays, takes care of animals, reads, cooks, helps around the house and does art in her spare time.



Plans as of August 9, 2009
These were finalized about two weeks before school began.

Math
MEP 3b moving through 4
Finish Singapore CWP 3 then 4
Ray's New Intellectual Math for oral review.

English
We'll start with copywork and dictation using selections from J.H. Ewing.

Literature
In Search of a Homeland by Penelope Lively
I'll need to add more after this, but I'll wait before I decide what to add.
There will again be lots of poetry read and memorized.

Foreign Language
Lively Latin
plus we listen to a cd of French songs in the car, and BB is teaching the girls some basic Japanese

Science
We are starting the year by continuing my current obsession with the rocks and geology of or area. We'll be using Hiking Colorado's Geology as our guide. We'll move inside to physical science and mechanics (as opposed to physics which you can't teach without a great deal more math than even an advanced third grader knows) when it gets cold.

History
Story of the World 3 with a liberal dose of early American history. I'm only planning to get to the Revolutionary War this year. I have a list of the other books we are using on the side of my main blog. I'm not using them all, but I'll put them in as we find topics that interest us.

That is all. I don't schedule reading because she does a lot of that. I don't schedule handwriting because hers is beautiful. I don't schedule art because she takes classes at the local art school. And I am hoping that grammar is covered by Latin and copywork and dictation.






My original plans for third grade.
Singapore Math 4
Sonlight Level 3 Readers These are early American History
Lively Latin or Latin for Children

First Language Lesson 4
Classical Writing Aesop

TOG Year 2 Units 3 and 4 at half pace
Sonlight Level 3 Science DVDs and kit
Artistic Pursuits

What about changing everything and doing OakMeadow 5 next year? I had thought of doing Sonlight 3 for third grade for many years, but recently I realized that she had already read most of the books on the reading list. I like the OM secular history approach. I like that it is integrated with the English. I like that it is artistic. I even like the environmental science. I would keep a writing program because I am firmly committed to a classical writing path. OM would be our art, history, grammar, science, and literature. We would only need OM, math, and writing, plus Latin if we choose.

First Grade Plans for LB (2011-2012)

Daily
Singapore Primary Math 2A & 2B
Handwriting
Readers

Once or twice a week
Lively Latin
TOG Year 4 LG
Artistic Pursuits
Explode the Code
Our own Animals Lessons

Short Lessons. Lots of stories and time to play.

Kindergarten Plans for LB (2010-2011)

Singapore Early Bird Math
Right Start Level A
Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K
Earlybird Start-Up Science

Lots of Play, Stories, and Cuddles

British Lit. Book List

Here is our reading and resource list for British Literature this year.

Lightning Lit. British Medieval Lit.
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Literary Lessons from Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

Hamlet by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's Hamlet by Bloom
Shakespeare and CO. by Stanley Wells
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead


Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

First Grade Curriculum

Daily
BJU Math 2
Singapore Math Intensive Practice 2A
Reading - She has already read more than I planned for the year so now she just reads everything around.
free choice Read Aloud

Twice a week
copywork from reading or recipes for copywork
various Fairy Tales

Once a week
Roman Mythology
Story of the World 1 audio
Gymnastics
Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems 2

Co-op classes once a week
Guitar
Face Painting
Human Body
Girl scouts
Spanish

Completed
FIAR co-op
SOTW activity co-op

The reading and math are the main priorities this year.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

My son a.k.a. Brother Bear (BB) wrote this as a summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for our British Literature class. Enjoy.


Take a chair and you will hear,

The tale of a contest,

Not far from here.

Starting the day before new year.

At the feast of that famous table round,

The footsteps of hooves trod the ground.

Upon it, a knight so obscene,

From his head to his toes all dressed in green.

A burly beard and an axe made of steel,

Bellowing for the strongest foe,

That a deal may be made to strike a blow.

'Come out and face a man that is real!

I come here not for battle or war,

But someone to strike me a blow with my axe,

Thats all I, you will hear from me no more.

Except a year from now I will strike you back,

Is anyone here man enough for that?”

With that calling rose the noblest of kings,

Grey and wise, but large with strength.

Accepting the challenge, the giver of rings,

From the table a voice spoke, short of length.

'Your majesty, If I may, I have no noble deeds,

Allow me to strike this blow,

If not for honor then for the need,

Lust for blood, and death of this foe.'

With that, the king stood down,

The man, sir gawain, grabbed the weapon

And readied the blade to hit the ground.

Then the green knight's head went off and down.

But to everyones surprise the body in green

Grabbed his head and turned away,

'Remember the deal we made sir gawain,

Come find me in a year and a day.'

A year followed and sir gawain set off.

He was going to keep his promise,

He left without sneer or scoff.

Stopping at a manor with intent to rest,

Inquired of the knight in green.

The lord of the house saying without jest,

'The man you seek lies across the stream,

A two mile ride, it would seem.

If what you tell me is true,

You have three days before your day is due.

In this house, stay with me and my wife too,

We are happy to accommodate you.

But shall we, strike a deal, for fun if nothing more,

Every morning I'll hunt, until sleepy is the sun.

And you will stay within my door.

At night we shall exchange the goods we get bar none.'

To this said sir Gawain,

'My lord i shall play this game.'

The next morning the lord's wife came,

With offerings of love and seduction.

But nay, what a flawless speaker Sir Gawain was,

Meeting every parley with a true explanation.

Resisting temptation of bliss,

But the woman before leaving, stole a kiss.

That night the lord gave sir gawain Venison,

A kiss gave Sir Gawain to the lord in return.

The second day two kisses for a boar,

But the third produced something more.

The lady offered Sir Gawain a belt,

Immortality, she said, leaving through the door.

That night the lord came with a fox,

Sir Gawain gave three kisses,

But not the girdle in the box.

The day after that he set off to find,

The knight in green to settle the deal.

Hearing the sharpening of blades, he made up his mind.

With girdle on his waist he waited to feel,

The green knight's blow when he would keel.

The green knight raised the axe and feigned twice,

On the third blood struck

Sir gawain's neck trickled slowly.

Sir Gawain called shenanigans, which wasn't nice,

The green knight just laughed, and gave a look.

Revealing himself to be the lord of the house,

Knew of the belt, of which he took.

To this he said, as quiet as a mouse,

'You broke the rules, now go back to your nook.

Go back to your town, you cheating thief,

Live in shame you lowlife crook.'